Top 1200 Selling Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll see a guy selling pretzels or an argument that somebody's having on a stoop and I'll think, "Oh I wish I had my camera, I wish I could capture this moment." There's something about people being people and interacting that can be so beautiful when it's framed by a camera. That desire to capture people as they are, and the stubbornness to keep going when they don't necessarily want you to capture them being who they are, are key.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

It wasn't that I amassed it with aims of selling it and becoming a rich man. My personality demanded that I be surrounded by the best examples of the world's art.

We define a bargain issue as one which, on the basis of facts established by analysis, appears to be worth considerably more that it is selling for.

Selling pot allowed me to get through college and make enough money to start off in comedy.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

None of my heroes were big rock stars, and I thought, 'This isn't how it's meant to be.' It wasn't about making music so much as selling it.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Traditionally the investor has been the man with patience and the courage of his convictions who would buy when the harried or disheartened speculator was selling.

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

People come to this country from all over the world to pursue their dreams of driving a taxi or selling hot dogs or working in a sweatshop.

Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

Walmart markets its gun department as 'sports and outdoors,' but let us get one thing straight: They are not just selling hunting rifles.

When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.

It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

I never really had any trouble selling my music to country audiences. They appreciate honest lyrics and straightforward melodies, and that's what I do.

I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

I have always regrets about selling anything of Reed Hastings because he's really a good manager and a great capitalist.

In order to sell in all the different places where medical marijuana is legal, you have to build a facility and grow in the state you're selling in, so it's daunting.

My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.

The only way out of the Scientology church is rip the Band-Aid off and know that your eternity is not at stake and know that you're doing the right thing and know that you're involved in a damaging, hurtful cult. Just look outside, don't listen to Scientology. They are not saving the world. Don't give up your lives, don't give up your families, don't give up your friends for something that turns its back on you and is ultimately a lie. What's Scientology's selling is a lie.

Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.

If any PC manufacturer has made money selling PCs retail in the last 10 years, I'd like to know who they are.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.

I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

I'd much rather face the voters defending what's right and true than to have to explain selling my country and my soul to Donald Trump.

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

I want to go out there and try as hard as I can to be the best in that ring. And for me, that doesn't mean cutting flips and cartwheels and not selling punches.

What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.

We were just hoping 'Prayin' for Daylight' wasn't a complete flop. Selling a million records wasn't even in our wildest thoughts.

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

If you're a small startup considering selling your company, there's definitely far worse places to work than Facebook.

I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.

I am not against remakes. They help in selling a film or creating a buzz around it. But it's my personal choice to stick to original music.

Approach each customer with the idea of helping him or her solve a problem or achieve a goal, not of selling a product or service.

Facebook stock continues to plummet. People started selling once they found out their mom bought it too.

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs to adverts.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

The internet has been incredible in regards to the selling of my CD. I don't know how it's affected or will affect my acting career.

In about five years I had gone from selling cigarettes in the streets of Abidjan to playing for the biggest club in the world.

Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing.

It sounds to me like selling a car with faulty brakes, and then buying an insurance policy on those cars.

If you go to a venture firm, what you're doing is you're buying money from them in exchange for equity. They have a commodity that they're selling and they have to differentiate themselves.

My dad used to sell a type of commodity contract. It was so complicated, he was certain his sales people didn't understand what they were selling.

I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.